Betray

//bɪˈtɹeɪ//

"Betray" in a Sentence (19 examples)

A few words may betray a man's true character.

John is not a man to betray you.

You are barking up the wrong tree by asking me to betray my country.

I am not going to betray you.

I would sooner starve than betray him.

One shouldn't betray one's friends.

He would be the last man to betray you.

He would be the last person to betray others.

He is the last person to betray his friends.

A true gentleman would not betray his friends.

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An officer betrayed the city.

to betray a person or a cause

Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat.

My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.

I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betrayes his maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovve vvhat my boy hath don; Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.

The dead leap at the throat, destroy The meaning of the day; dark forms Have scaled your walls, and spies betray Old secrets to amorphous swarms.

Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.

Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast [Josh] Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.

Again, to take a less extreme example, there is no denying that although the dialects of northern France retained their fundamentally Romance character, they betray many Germanic influences in phonetics and vocabulary, […]

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